National Republican., 1887-03-21
CHEER FOR DISHEARTENED.
THE SUBJECT OF REV. T. DEWITT TALL
MAGE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE.
Heaven, Earth, and He'll Are After the
Immortal Spirit of Man-Our Own
Fault If We Should Happen to Miss
Heaven.

KANSAS CITY, NO., Mar. 20.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, d. D., preached in the Second
Presbyterian Church. of this place, this morn
ing. He arrived here yesterday from st. Louis,
and Is stopping over Sunday on his way to
Topeka, Kan. After expounding an appropri-
ate chapter, he gave out the hymn beginning
"Jesus, lover Of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly"
His subject was "Cheer for the Disheart-
ened," and his text Psalm cxlii, Al "No
man cared for my SOUL" DR.. Talmage said;
David, the rubicund lad, had become the
battle-worn warrior. Three thousand armed
men In pursuit of him, he had hidden in the
cave of Engedi, near the coast of the Dead
sea. Utterly tagged out with the pursuit. as
you have often been worn out with the trials
Of life, he sat down and cried out "No man
II YOU ~ should fall through hatchway, or
slip from scaffolding, or drop through a sky.
would come around and pick up your body
and carry 1t to the home or to the hospital. !
saw a great crowd Of people In the street, and
out that poor laboring man had fallen under
tears at the thought Of his distracted wife and
with physical disaster, but how little
sympathy for spiritual woes There are men
In this house who have come to mid. d.life who
about their eternal welfare. 4 great sermon
dropped into an audience of hundreds Of thou,
sands will do Its work but II this world is
little sermons preached 10 private Christians,
to an audience of one. The sisters letter post
marked at the village-the word uttered
half Of tears~the Religious postscript TO bust.
ness letter-the card left at the door when you
had some kind of trouble-the anxious look of
Sns an no
the kingdom Of God. But there are hundreds
Ofpeople IN this house who will take the
word that Pad used IN the past tense AND
'No man cares for my soul" You feel as you
80 out day by day in the tug and iostle OF life
that It y G every n man i9r himself fos can
ana would consider It almost impertinent Tor
any one to ask you whether you are making or
fs when YOU Would have '" drawn % YOUR check for
thousands of dollars II some one would only
help your soul out OF It's perplexities. There
ache, and distract. and ago6ize you at times.
Let no one suppose that because you are busy
all day with hardware. OF dry goods, or groce-
rIe or grain that your thoughts are no Longer
headed nails of the store counter. When you
speak once about religious things you think
ye thousand times They call ySS world r6
are eindustrious and keep busy, but you have
had your. eyes opened TO the realities OF the
next world You are not a fool; You know
few years at most will wind up your
earthly engagements, and that you will take
residence in distant sphere where all your
business adroitness would be a superiulty.
You sometimes think till your head aches
about great religious subjects You go down
the street with your eyes fixed on the pave
ment, obliyious of the passing multltudes
your thoughts gone on eternal expedition.
You wonder II the Bible is true, how much OF
IL is literal and how much Is figurative, II
Christ be God. II there is anything like retri-
button, II you arc immortal If a resurrection
will ever take place. what the occupation OF
your departed kindred is, what you will be
len thousand years from now. With q cul-
tured placidity of countenance you are on fire
with agitations of soul. Oh, this solitary
anxietyof your whole lifetime You have
sold goods TO or bought them from Christian
people for ten years, and they have never
whispered one word OF spiritual counsel. You
havepassed up aud down tho aisles OF churches
with men who knew that you had no hope of
heaven, and talked about the weather and
about your physical health, and about every
thing but that concerning which you most
wanted to hear them speak, namely, your
everlasting spirit. Times without number
you have felt In your heart, II you have not
uttered y with your lips: mo man cares for
my soul"
There have been times when you were es-
pecially pliable on tho great subject of re-
figion. 1t was so, for instance, aller you had